History-Making UNH Scientific Balloon Designed by High School Students from UNH Project SMART

History-Making UNH Scientific Balloon Designed by High School Students from UNH Project SMART

Jul 26, 2012

On Monday, July 23, 2012, high school students and their UNH mentors successfully flew and recovered a scientific payload that had been carried aloft by balloon to 105,700 feet. Onboard cameras captured images of a cloud-laden Earth against the blackness of outer space. The experiment was part of the students’ activities at Project SMART (Science and Mathematics Achievement through Research Training), a four-week summer residential program at UNH.